Mun-Keat Looi

Commissioning editor

Mun-Keat Looi is Commissioning Editor for Mosaic and Senior Editor at the Wellcome Trust. He has written and worked for the likes of SciDev.Net, the Guardian and Thomson Reuters, and authored the book The Big Questions in Science: The quest to solve the great unknowns, published in 2013. He likes storytelling, digital nerdery and anything to do with Japan.

Millions of people across the world want to make their skin lighter – but the treatments they use can be dangerous. Mary-Rose Abraham meets beauticians, dermatologists and their clients to walk the line between aesthetic choice and racial prejudice.

Governments around the world were slow to get to grips with HIV/AIDS. But a big change came when they started understanding it not just as a health issue but as a security threat too. Alexandra Ossola investigates.

Can virtual reality really soothe pain? Jo Marchant meets the doctors who say yes, and who hope this is a solution for the country consuming 80 per cent of the world’s opioid supply: the United States of America.